Although written and
published last among his eight Revolutionary novels in 1867, Joscelyn should be
placed first in the series chronologically, for it lays out the preliminaries
and “origins of this partisan conflict.”[1] Set in the final six months of 1775, the
romance depicts the beginnings of the Revolutionary conflict between patriots
and loyalists in the backcountries of Georgia and South Carolina. Simms mixed
historical figures, such as William Henry Drayton and Thomas Browne, with
fictional ones to illustrate the dramatic tensions and implications of the
early partisan ...

Although written and
published last among his eight Revolutionary novels in 1867, Joscelyn should be
placed first in the series chronologically, for it lays out the preliminaries
and “origins of this partisan conflict.”[1] Set in the final six months of 1775, the
romance depicts the beginnings of the Revolutionary conflict between patriots
and loyalists in the backcountries of Georgia and South Carolina. Simms mixed
historical figures, such as William Henry Drayton and Thomas Browne, with
fictional ones to illustrate the dramatic tensions and implications of the
early partisan ...

Selections from the Letters and
Speeches of the Hon. James H. Hammond, of South Carolina was originally
published in New York by John F. Trow & Co. in 1866. The Southern Studies Program at the
University of South Carolina included Selections
in the South Caroliniana Series, and so it was published by the Reprint Company
in 1978. James Henry Hammond (1807-1864)
served South Carolina as a member of Congress from 1835-1836, governor from
1842-1844, and United States senator from 1857 until 1860, when he resigned
upon South Carolina’s secession from the Union.
Hammond ...

In the closing years of his
life, William Gilmore Simms found himself physically unwell, near-indigent, and
living in a post-Civil War world that challenged his entire conception of
social order. Yet, out of this, Simms
produced one last great flourish of creativity, including The Cub of the Panther: A Hunter
Legend of the “Old North State.”
This novel shares certain features with the author’s earlier border
romances, exhibiting a similar interest in violence, comedy, and social
stratification. Yet, the different socio-political
circumstances of the postbellum world ...